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When Aaron spoke with police and explained that they did in fact want an investigation he was told he could face jail time for lying. It wasnt until Cipriana took to her blog, urbanbushbabes.com to write about the attack and the lack of police investigation that the press took note (NY Post & Fox 5) and the police suddenly changed their tune. Now the NYPD claims the case was never closed and has labeled it a hate crime.
http://theballadofdevon.tumblr.com/post/52232979972/chescaleigh-this-past-memorial-day-weekend
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Rex
(65,616 posts)"Quick the media caught wind of a scandal, lets go that way!"
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Just about every police department. (I'll add the Just to make the folks who think there are some good cops happy)
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)'screw it', 'if the fed government can act without taking any responsibility then so can we'.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)You know, I would have expected this of NYPD circa 1975, but I guess I was expecting the rank and file would have been less racist now that there are so many officers of various ethnic persuasion. Guess I was a dumbass to think that racism would cease to be institutionalized. Stupid me.
These poor guys and bravo to Cipriana for not taking this lying down. Gotta fight these fuckers tooth and nail when they fuck up. Disgraceful.
BTW, anyone know WTF is going on with random gangs attacking people downtown lately????
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)The NYPD certainly isn't interested in doing something about this.
Actually having to SOLVE CRIMES, instead of unnecessarily harassing innocent Black and Brown people has all of the risk of appearing that the crime problem is not as innocuous as the city leaders and the NYPD would want everyone to believe.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)It's as if it were a sovereign entity of its own. Who will guard us from the guardians?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)What wall street does with money to hide fiscal shakiness, the NYPD does with crimes against people to hide the true level of crime in NYC.
When promotions, bonuses, and budgets are tied to arbitrary goals in crime reporting reduction, there is incentive to game the system- to downplay actual crime reports and to gin up spurious arrests ('stop and frisk').
This is what you get when you run a police department like a wall street business.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)in the city, from the top down, "juked the stats" to make things look better than they were.
And how anyone who objected was shoved into a corner job, so to speak.
the writer of the series and book based everything on reality.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)See the Village Voice's award-winning series on the Schoolcraft tapes.
SamKnause
(13,112 posts)Thanks for posting.
Signed and sent.
It is time for this bullshit to stop !!!!!